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Editor’s note: This has been revised to more accurately reflect Mark Meyer’s guest editorial. Although a former Hi-Line resident has warned people that the Passenger Rail Association is “pulling the alarm bell” regarding the future of Amtrak long-distance passenger trains, the members of Montana's Congressional delegation said they will support keeping Amtrak's Empire Builder running along the Hi-Line in its route from Chicago to the West Coast. Cut Bank native Mark Meyer,...
A Havre man received one-year probation for drunkenly crashing and rolling over a vehicle, injuring the two passengers. Keiffer T. Nordgulen, born in 1989, was sentenced Wednesday in state District Court in Havre, after a multi-day sentence hearing, to one year in the county jail — all suspended — for the offense of misdemeanor negligent endangerment. He received credit for one day served. Nordgulen’s sentence is part of a last-minute plea deal that dismissed a felony criminal endangerment charge, as well as two misde...
One would never know it by looking, but high school tennis season is here, and for the Havre Blue Ponies, it's really here. Even with piles of snow still resting on the ground all over most of Montana, the Blue Ponies, of 17-year veteran head coach George Ferguson, will begin their regular season Saturday on indoor courts in Cut Bank. Yes, even though Havre has spent just as much time shoveling the Bill Vaughey Memorial Tennis Courts, as it has practicing, the Blue Ponies are...
Don’t put your shovels away yet, or at least keep them close by. That was the warning from Jim Brusda, chief meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Great Falls Thursday. Brusda was referring to the fact that indications are winter weather is far from over in Havre. And there’s quite a few reasons why — but the biggest is snow. “The snow pack,” Brusda said of why Havre is experiencing well below normal temperatures deep into March, and more colder temps are being...
Former H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Manager Emily Mayer returned to her job Tuesday at the museum. Mayer, who was museum manager from 2002 to 2004 when it was in the Heritage Center, the former Havre post office on third Avenue now restored as the Havre Historic Post Office, will manage the museum now housed in the Holiday Village Mall. She said that Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas called her last week to offer her the part-time position. "And I said, 'Yes, yes. I will be...
A Havre woman who allegedly rammed her vehicle into a Havre police cruiser in January was sentenced in state District Court in Havre Monday to 10 years in plea agreements on multiple cases. Rebecca S. Denson, born 1964, is being held at the Chouteau County Jail — while waiting on a pending Hill County case — because of her assault on a Hill County DetentIon Officer in 2017. Denson is accused of ramming a vehicle into a police cruiser Jan. 31 after getting stuck as a result of her fleeing officers. Court charging doc...
Monday 8 a.m. — Center for Mental Health Meeting in Great Falls 8 a.m. — MACR’s in Great Falls 2 p.m. — First reading of Beaver Creek Park Cabin Ordinance Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Weekly Road Department meeting 2 p.m. — County attorney’s operational change follow-up meeting in the Timmons Room. Wednesday Regular office hours Thursday 8 a.m. — Health Fair 10 a.m. — Weekly business meeting Manual claims Employment review Resolutions Tax adjustments County permit approval Subdivision/survey approval Contracts Time for comments from...
The Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. in the Havre Middle School. The agenda for the meeting is: A. Call to order 1. Pledge of Allegiance 2. Roll call 3. Welcome to visitors 4. Agenda deletions or corrections, if any B. New business 1. Personnel Open Agenda — An opportunity for any member of the audience to bring to the attention of the board questions or relevant comments concerning district matters not on the agenda. The board will not discuss or take action on items n...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a report that someone at a Fourth Street residential building was asking suspicious activity on an account Thursday at 1:08 p.m. —— Officers investigated a two-vehicle noninjury crash on First Street at 2:36 p.m. —— Gladys Jean Flatlip of Box Elder, 47, and Kenneth Lee Looksback of Havre, 48, were each arrested on charges of trespass to property and open container in the city after a Sixth Avenue caller reported Thursday at 3:41 p.m. that a possibly intoxicated man and a woman w...
I was never one of those chicks who had guys rushing to do things for her or even to save her from herself. I wasn’t one of those uber-pretty and delicate girls for whom guys fell over themselves, and I had enough sarcasm and swearing to make anyone possible rescuers think twice. Plus, my ridiculous parents raised me to be independent. What was that about? That said, I was raised to expect some coddling from loved ones, as I should do for them. My husband, John, does a fair j...
The Rail Passengers Association — a 50-year old passenger train advocacy group — is “pulling the alarm bell” regarding the future of Amtrak long-distance services. There is good evidence that a major discussion going on within Amtrak to consider cutting and reconfiguring its long distance trains — including the Empire Builder across Montana’s Hi-Line — to operate but 3 days a week. These discussions are apparently happening due to presidential influences in the White House, in the U.S. Department of Transportation and Amtrak...
By Emily Mayer The Havre School Board of Trustees announced who won the contract to build the second Havre High School. This announcement was found on the front page of The Havre Plaindealer’s March 23, 1918 edition: BOARD LETS CONTRACT HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING Contracts were let by the board of trustees of School District No. 16 Wednesday evening for the new high school building. The contracting firm of Fuglevand & Sundberg was awarded the building, the plumbing went to J. P. Grady & Co., and the wiring to E. S. Henry. The n...
The Havre-Hill County Library will be closed Saturday while new carpeting is installed. Regular business hours will resume Monday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m....
North Central Senior Citizens Center, March 26-30 Monday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bingo at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m; TOPS at 8 a.m.; cards at 1 p.m.; mall or Walmart shopping from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.; mall or Walmart Shopping 1:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday — Transportation from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; pinochle at 1 p.m. Friday — Medical transportation will be available from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. but people must make a request at least 24 hours in...
Ryan Reeves had a phenomenal basketball career for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. And he added one more accolade to it Wednesday. Reeves, the 6-10 senior from Wrangel, Alaska was named NAIA Honorable Mention All-American. Reeves set records at Northern in his three seasons, including the career blocks record and blocks in a season. In his senior year, he also led the Lights with 16 points per game, nine rebounds, four blocks and two steals. Awards are also...
You know, Lord, real homes aren’t really spotless which was quite evident by the speckles than were unnecessary on the kitchen windows. In our climate, it isn’t wise in winter to wash the outside of the windows but late March — and on a day that was fair and had bright sun and blue sky — why not? It was a perfectly lovely day to get a headstart on spring housecleaning. After the windows were spotless and the kitchen back in order, it was surprising to see how much more tidy and clean the world really did look when looking...
This week we will begin looking at some material from the book “Never Enough?” authored by Ron Blue with Karen Guess. The idea of the book is to teach us financial contentment by implementing Biblical principles into our lives. What captured my attention almost immediately was when the author asked a pastor to share the biggest hindrance to the spread of the gospel in his part of the world. Without hesitation the pastor answered, “materialism.” The pastor went on to explain, “If a man has a mud hut, he wants a stone hut...
Out our way, we know that every critter has its own special gift. In the old days, a cowhand had a string of horses and often they had special talents or gifts. This was a horse for roping strays; this one was long-winded for the trail; this one was quiet and calm for nighthawk duty, and so forth. Now, old Doc was born and raised in the Bear Paws and his sisters were top barrel racers - fast, quick and sure-footed. Goliath, on the other hand, was a tad slow, clumsy and often t...
Before there was Havre, there was an area south of the Milk River called Bullhook Bottoms, which got its name from the butte southeast of present-day Havre that regional Native Americans called Bullhook, from the legend of a bull bison gouging out the middle of the butte. The lowland, where the creek that starts at the butte flows into the Milk River, was known as Bullhook Bottoms. Great Northern Railway head James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder," wanted the name of the area cha...
